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ppmpat - make a pretty pixmap
ppmpat -gingham2|-g2|-gingham3| -g3|-madras|-tartan|
-poles|-squig|-camo| -anticamo width height
Produces a portable pixmap
of the specified width and height, with a pattern in it.
This program is
mainly to demonstrate use of the ppmdraw routines, a simple but powerful
drawing library. See the ppmdraw.h include file for more info on using these
routines. Still, some of the patterns can be rather pretty. If you have a
color workstation, something like ppmpat -squig 300 300 | "ppmquant 128"
should generate a nice background.
The different flags specify various
different pattern types:
- -gingham2
- A gingham check pattern. Can be tiled.
- -gingham3
- A slightly more complicated gingham. Can be tiled.
- -madras
- A madras
plaid. Can be tiled.
- -tartan
- A tartan plaid. Can be tiled.
- -poles
- Color gradients
centered on randomly-placed poles. May need to be run through ppmquant.
- -squig
- Squiggley tubular pattern. Can be tiled. May need to be run through ppmquant.
- -camo
- Camouflage pattern. May need to be run through ppmquant.
- -anticamo
- Anti-camouflage
pattern - like -camo, but ultra-bright colors. May need to be run through ppmquant.
All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
Some
of the patterns are from "Designer's Guide to Color 3" by Jeanne Allen.
pnmtile(1)
, ppmquant(1)
, ppm(5)
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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